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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

@Sempf Also, do not mistake the imperfect for evil, which keeps happening and it's extremely not helpful

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

Listen,

It is possible to criticize something without abjectly despising it. 404 can have bad takes; I'm still paying for their journalism because it's usually very good.

Proton's marketing and social team are kind of yutzes, but the service is very good for what it is, and much better than the normative choice.

Seeking infallibility will eat all your time and get you nowhere.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
thumper@bunny.social ("Thumper ➡️Fetch➡️TFF➡️LVFC") wrote:

I was told we need more positivity on the timeline today. Let's do this! I'm going to share some of the lovely photos of me and friends from #FC2026 !!

First, I really like this shot of me by @Tav_Fox
#fursuit #positivity

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
thumper@bunny.social ("Thumper ➡️Fetch➡️TFF➡️LVFC") wrote:

I feel short... #EarCompensation

@Reo_Grayfox
@flukehusky
📷@bluehasia.bsky.social
#FC2026 #fursuit #positivity

Boosted by jwz:
otterlove@mastodon.art ("Andy P") wrote:

A master hater

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

It is once again time to give the entire world jetlag so that we can save [checks notes] candles? That can't be right, can it?

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

The forecast said it'll be partly sunny by now 😔

Boosted by jwz:
SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

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onepict@chaos.social ("Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:") wrote:

@WeirdWriter @KFears @tiotasram @marjolica

This is a good post about it as well

https://brennan.day/an-open-letter-to-cory-doctorow-ollama-is-part-of-the-enshittification/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
pythonbynight@hachyderm.io ("Mario Munoz") wrote:

@fromjason Well, they also tend to tell you their nefarious plans in true Bond-villain cosplay:

"I wonder if the future looks something more like universal basic compute than universal basic income and everybody gets a slice of GPT-7's compute and they can use it, they can resell it, they can donate it to somebody to use for cancer research." - Altman

Mind you, that was nearly 2 years ago. They're desperately trying to get there before a market collapse...

https://www.techspot.com/news/102975-sam-altman-envisions-future-where-universal-basic-income.html

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Just saw a YouTube ad that if I screenshot it, I might go to jail. What in the federal fuck. It was a girl, possibly AI but idk, making suggestive movements just out of frame. Nothing about any of my search history would suggest I'd want to see that.

I cannot believe what I just saw.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
dbattistella@mstdn.ca ("DB 🌱💦") wrote:

🚨 OpenAI's head of Robotics resigned because the company is building lethal AI weapons with NO human input required.

> Read that again. Lethal. Autonomy. Without. Human. Authorization.

> The person who built the robots is saying she quit because there are no guardrails on who they kill.

This is the same company that won't let ChatGPT say a swear word.

They put safety filters on your prompts but none on their kill chain.

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

losing my own theory of mind when it comes to people talking about LLMs having minds

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
katiefenn@front-end.social ("Katie Fenn") wrote:

Fuck, man.

I don’t even know where to begin. This isn’t even about LLMs anymore. Casting aside human beings for their particular skills and experience is a fucking repulsive attitude.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
midtsveen@kolektiva.social ("Erik L. Midtsveen ✯☭") wrote:

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 💕💁

#Billionaires #Capitalism #Anarchism #USA #US #Politics #Economic #LucyParsons #Inequality

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

When I force-quit Google Maps to stop it from whining and it STILL sent a notification saying “I’m connected to CarPlay!”, I was like, “Maybe I should just delete you from the phone entirely.”

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Used Google Maps on the phone for the first time in a while yesterday. The UX has caught up to Apple’s in a lot of ways, but it is a *shockingly* whiny app. It wants you to give it *all* access, and if you deny it, it will bombard you with “But it’ll be SO MUCH BETTER IF YOU DO” notifications.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange ("Lesley Carhart :unverified:") wrote:

This is anecdotal, but every time I say I have a bad feeling about something

(See: Elon and companies, alleged grassy knoll ear shots, LLMs, cryptocurrency, Gamergate, project 2025)

And I get tech people yelling at me in the comments,

Within two years I’m proven extremely right.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu ("European Commission") wrote:

Attention creatives!

We've opened the call for European Cooperation Projects 2026 under our Creative Europe programme-the EU's flagship programme for culture and creative sectors.

With a budget of €60 million, the call will support around 150 projects carrying out a wide range of cultural and creative activities, involving artists and stakeholders active in different cultural and creative sectors 🎭💃🏻🎵📚

Deadline: 5 May

More👉https://link.europa.eu/yQKd7g

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Americans trust Fauci over RFK Jr. and career scientists over Trump officials
RFK Jr. has tried hard to villainize Fauci. Americans still trust Fauci more.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/03/americans-trust-fauci-over-rfk-jr-and-career-scientists-over-trump-officials/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
davew ("Dave Winer ☕️") wrote:

What are some good Mastodon accounts to follow for news?

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I made it so you can now left-swipe to cycle through all kinds of vital information right on your PineTime's watch face:

time, daily step progress, temperature forecast, heart rate, battery status.

Hover the animated GIF to see it in action:

Attachments:

• gifv: Different progress displays of the watch face

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
snuci@oldbytes.space ("Santo Nucifora") wrote:

If you looked up "cute computer" you might find the XYZ Electronics Micro-portable computer. This Z80 based computer runs CP/M and used Sony's new 3.5" floppy drive with manual shutter floppies. Shown here, it's running the game Zork. While it kinda looks like a Mac, this was from 1983.

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

The legendary Dos Navigator (1991) is back 🥹

📂 **rdn** — Rust Dos Navigator terminal file manager

💯 Two-panel layout, DOS accurate colors, built-in viewer & even Tetris

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/apatrushev/rdn

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #dos #file #manager #devtools #terminal

Attachments:

• gifv: fc6d9c00246669e4.mp4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
wim_v12e@tilde.zone ("Wim 🅾→Ⓣ") wrote:

This cherry tree decided to blossom way before all the others.
#photography
#sakura
#spring

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

@catch56 @passenger ~100% of the guys saying "LOCAL MODELS LOCAL MODELS" are on the $200/mo Claude subscription

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i will not be entertaining technical arguments for LLMs any longer. if you use an LLM you are marking yourself out as scum and i will treat you as such.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

the AI bubble is a big money scam, but it’s part of a system of big money scams. the current US economy is multiple rotten logs holding each other up.

here are some things all on the horizon or here now, simultaneously:

* AI bubble pops (soon? my guess is 2027-ish)
* All electronics prices go up 50-100% (in progress) (edit: 200%-500% already)
* Private credit does a 2008 (currently juggling chainsaws and yelling "THIS IS FINE")
* Consumer loan defaults getting quite bad (since 2024)
* Wall St Bitcoin falls over (in progress; not so load bearing, but very funny)
* War sends oil through the roof
* Capping oil wells (a non trivial and slow to reverse action)

what other exciting economic disasters are cooking right this moment to ready us for Great Depression 2? place bets now!

btw, Jay Powell finishes as Fed chair in May and Trump's pick, Kevin Warsh, is a bitcoiner into Austrian Econ goldbuggery. countries left Great Depression 1 as they got *off* the gold standard, Warsh is the perfect wrong man to have in the hot seat at the wrong time

's gonna be awesome

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

I’m officially done with takes on AI beginning “Ethical concerns aside…”.

No! Stop right there.

Ethical concerns front and center. First thing. Let’s get this out of the way and then see if thre is anything left worth talking about.

Ethics is the formalisation of how we are treating one another as human beings and how we relate to the world around us.

It is *impossible* to put ethics aside.

What you mean is “I don’t want to apologise for my greed and selfishness.”

Say that first.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
olivia@scholar.social ("Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ") wrote:

> "I can code this from scratch" is way more impressive than you might think given toxic industry pro-AI nonsense. The same goes for writing clearly, reading and comprehending journal articles, thinking things through, and on and on.

> When the hype inevitably dies down, as it has done many times before, through AI summers and winters (see my talk here if you were not aware of these cycles), you want to have skills. You want to have a degree that matters.

https://olivia.science/cheating/

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